Insufficient permissions to save my files.

Hi,
when trying to save my files with older Applications like Photoshop CS4, Scribo and many others, I always get the error message that I don't have permission to save the file.
I already booted into Recovery mode and tried to repair ACLs and permission with that hidden feature in password-reset. After letting it run for 10 hours, I canceled it without success.
I tried to change the file permissions manually - no success.
I'm pretty sure that is related to that annoying new "instant save" feature.
The only way I could work out is to save files to another drive with another file system (FAT32!!!)
That is really driving me crazy. I don't have the time and energy to reinstall 10.6 right now and migrate all my data back.
After installing 10.7, I'm really thinking about going back to Windows...

OK, I have the same problem. I did what Linc Davis suggests in Terminal. And here is what I get:
Last login: Wed Jul 11 18:12:32 on console
LaurentsiMac:~ laurentsauerwein$ ls -AOel ~
total 536
-rw-r--r--    1 laurentsauerwein laurentsauerwein -          3 Nov 3 2007 .CFUserTextEncoding
-rw-r--r--@   1 laurentsauerwein laurentsauerwein hidden 43012 Jul 12 01:39 .DS_Store
drwxr-xr-x    4 laurentsauerwein laurentsauerwein -        136 Jul 12 2009 .DownloadManager
drwxr-xr-x    2 laurentsauerwein laurentsauerwein -         68 Jul 11 18:13 .Trash
-rw-r--r--    1 laurentsauerwein laurentsauerwein -          0 Jul 30 2008 .Xauthority
drwxr-xr-x    2 laurentsauerwein laurentsauerwein -         68 Jul 20 2008 .Xcode
drwxr-xr-x    4 laurentsauerwein laurentsauerwein -        136 Jul 3 2011 .adobe
-rw-r--r--    1 laurentsauerwein laurentsauerwein -      14869 Jun 24 19:46 .bash_history
drwxr-xr-x   33 laurentsauerwein laurentsauerwein -       1122 Nov 10 2009 .calibre-fontconfig
drwxr-xr-x    3 laurentsauerwein laurentsauerwein -        102 Apr 12 2008 .cups
drwx------   14 laurentsauerwein laurentsauerwein -        476 Jul 11 18:14 .dropbox
drwxr-xr-x   22 laurentsauerwein laurentsauerwein -        748 Sep 13 2011 .dvdcss
-rw-r--r--    1 laurentsauerwein laurentsauerwein -         28 Jan 25 2007 .eno
drwxr-xr-x   29 laurentsauerwein laurentsauerwein -        986 Feb 28 2010 .fontconfig
drwxr-xr-x   14 laurentsauerwein laurentsauerwein -        476 Oct 4 2009 .fonts
-rwxr-xr-x    1 laurentsauerwein laurentsauerwein -         17 Nov 4 2003 .jalbum-defaults.jap
-rw-r--r--    1 laurentsauerwein laurentsauerwein -         49 Oct 24 2004 .jalbum-recent-projects.properties
drwxr-xr-x@   2 laurentsauerwein laurentsauerwein -         68 Aug 17 2004 .java
drwxr-xr-x   15 laurentsauerwein laurentsauerwein -        510 Nov 22 2005 .jbidwatcher
drwxr-xr-x@   4 laurentsauerwein laurentsauerwein -        136 Feb 8 2004 .jpi_cache
-rw-r--r--    1 laurentsauerwein laurentsauerwein -       1024 Nov 16 2008 .rnd
-rw-r--r--    1 laurentsauerwein laurentsauerwein -         16 Feb 14 00:12 .vbt5
-rw-r--r--    1 laurentsauerwein laurentsauerwein -        538 Jul 13 2009 Adobe CS4 Installer Database removal application.log
-rw-r--r--    1 laurentsauerwein laurentsauerwein -      66819 Mar 16 16:28 Adobe CS5 Cleaner Tool.log
-rw-r--r--@   1 laurentsauerwein laurentsauerwein -      59440 Aug 11 2005 Adobe SVG 3.0 Installer Log
-rw-r--r--    1 laurentsauerwein laurentsauerwein -       8420 Jul 20 2009 AdobeCS3Clean.log
drwxr-xr-x    7 laurentsauerwein laurentsauerwein -        238 Jul 13 2009 AdobeLicensingFilesBackup
drwxr-xr-x    3 laurentsauerwein laurentsauerwein -        102 Jul 10 09:17 Applications
drwxr-xr-x   15 laurentsauerwein laurentsauerwein -        510 Mar 4 2010 Calibre Library
drwx------@ 68 laurentsauerwein laurentsauerwein -       2312 Jul 11 18:15 Desktop
drwx------@ 89 laurentsauerwein laurentsauerwein -       3026 Jun 27 16:53 Documents
drwx------    4 laurentsauerwein laurentsauerwein -        136 Jul 10 11:35 Downloads
drwxr-xr-x@ 42 laurentsauerwein laurentsauerwein -       1428 Jul 11 18:14 Dropbox
drwxr-xr-x    9 laurentsauerwein laurentsauerwein -        306 Mar 25 2007 Incomplete
drwx------@ 86 laurentsauerwein laurentsauerwein hidden 2924 Jul 11 18:13 Library
drwxr-xr-x    3 laurentsauerwein laurentsauerwein -        102 Feb 12 2006 Magazines
drwx------@ 15 laurentsauerwein laurentsauerwein -        510 Mar 12 18:46 Movies
drwx------@ 15 laurentsauerwein laurentsauerwein -        510 May 13 18:19 Music
drwx------@ 482 laurentsauerwein laurentsauerwein -      16388 Jul 7 18:03 Pictures
d---------@   5 laurentsauerwein laurentsauerwein -        170 Nov 20 2005 Public
0: user:laurentsauerwein allow list,add_file,search,add_subdirectory,delete_child,readattr,writeattr,readextat tr,writeextattr,readsecurity
1: group:laurentsauerwein allow list,add_file,search,add_subdirectory,delete_child,readattr,writeattr,readextat tr,writeextattr,readsecurity
2: group:everyone allow list,add_file,search,add_subdirectory,delete_child,readattr,writeattr,readextat tr,writeextattr,readsecurity
drwxr-xr-x    3 laurentsauerwein laurentsauerwein -        102 Mar 25 2007 Shared
drwxr-xr-x@   8 laurentsauerwein laurentsauerwein -        272 Aug 30 2004 Sites
drwxr-xr-x    5 laurentsauerwein laurentsauerwein -        170 Feb 26 2007 cfx
drwxr-xr-x    2 laurentsauerwein laurentsauerwein -         68 May 11 2011 dwhelper
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-rw-r--r--    1 laurentsauerwein laurentsauerwein -          7 Feb 8 2006 loc.txt
-rw-r--r--    1 laurentsauerwein laurentsauerwein -         57 May 17 2004 {guest}-chat.properties

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Visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQs on maintenance, optimization, virus protection, and backup and restore.
Additional suggestions will be found in Mac Maintenance Quick Assist.
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PSE 13 crashes whenever I try to save a file. It worked last week and no longer works. I tried trashing the preference file. That didn't fix the problem.

I installed PSE 13 three weeks ago. It worked well for a while, then started to crash whenever I tried to save a file for the web. I trashed the preferences. That didn't seem to help. PSE 11 still works well on my Mac, so I think it's a software problem. I also ran the permissions repair on Disk Utility. I have Yosemite on a MacBook Pro with 4 GB of RAM.

I've not used Keynote 5.3 in OS 10.7.5 in quite some time, but I do know that in more current OS versions there is a Saved Application State folder in the Username/Library folder which can get corrupted/ messed up when an application crashes. The User Library folder, as I recall, is hidden in the Finder, but accessible by pressing and holding the Option key while clicking on the Go menu in Finder.
"com.apple.Keynote.savedState" is the folder, or perhaps file, you want to find and delete- making sure Keynote is not open at that time, which if it can't start without crashing will not be a problem.
This is a "trick" I've used with other applications that got stuck in a loop of trying to restore a pre-crash state, and obviously couldn't start as that state led to the crash. I do not see that savedState file for Keynote on my 10.9 computer, but that is where I would look.
Good luck!

I have just upgraded to OSX 10.6.8 and now I cannot open or save PDF files from the internet. I get a dialogue box saying the QuickTime plugin has failed. I have tried to download the latest plugin but this doesn't work. Can anyone help?

I have just upgraded to OSX 10.6.8 and now I cannot open or save PDF files from the internet using either Safari or Firefox. I get a dialogue box saying the QuickTime plugin has failed. Can anyone help?

Is this what you downloaded: iTunes 10.7?
When the update fails what if any error report do you get, specifically? Please do this before trying again:
Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions
Boot from your Snow Leopard Installer disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu. After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive. If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the installer.
If DU reports errors it cannot fix, then you will need Disk Warrior and/or Tech Tool Pro to repair the drive. If you don't have either of them or if neither of them can fix the drive, then you will need to reformat the drive and reinstall OS X.

Insufficient permissions to save my files.

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